Breimon v. General Motors Corp.

This is a products liability action, but the issues raised are evidentiary. Error is assigned to the suppression of the testimony of the plaintiff’s former wife, the exclusion of evidence of the plaintiff’s driving record, the admission of evidence of a comparable happening, the allowance of the demonstration of an experiment by expert witnesses, the alleged misconduct of counsel in introducing evidence of a subsequent design change, and the supposed unfairness in the opportunities for discovery given to the respective parties.

Kurt Breimon suffered permanent paraplegia on March *7498, 1967, when…